Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Mansard Roof 2:06 388,590
2 Oxford Comma 3:14 603,772
3 A-Punk 2:17 730,469
4 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa 3:33 537,404
5 M79 4:14 303,831
6 Campus 2:55 353,781
7 Bryn 2:11 319,003
8 One (Blake's Got a New Face) 3:10 207,211
9 I Stand Corrected 2:38 265,434
10 Walcott 3:38 325,923
11 The Kids Don't Stand a Chance 4:52 307,654

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About this album

Released: 28 Jan 2008 11 tracks (34:48)
Vampire Weekend is the debut album by American band Vampire Weekend, released January 2008 on XL Recordings. The album was produced by band member Rostam Batmanglij, with mixing assistance from Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback.
In the United States, the album sold over 27,000 copies in the first week of its release, debuting at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and as of 20 January 2010, has sold nearly half a million copies. In the album’s 11th week in the UK chart, it peaked at number 15. The album also reached number 37 in Australia.

The album’s distinctive cover photo is a Polaroid picture from one of their early shows in Columbia University.
The first single, “Mansard Roof”, was released on October 28, 2007. The second single, “A-Punk”, was released in early 2008. The album was ranked as the 5th best album of 2008 by Time, the 56th Best Album of the Decade by Rolling Stone and 51st on Pitchfork’s list of the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.

Recording History

The album was recorded in a variety of environments including; a basement where there was “a good set up for recording drums”; a barn; the apartments of two band members and Tree Fort studio in Brooklyn. The locations bore an effect on the sound that was produced, demonstrated by a session recorded early in 2007 at a barn, which resulted in “really echoey drums”.
In October 2007, the lead singer Ezra Koenig, said that the band had “some of the tracks […

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  • hawk_k

    Their Best Album.

    February 2012
  • aellylis

    I fucking love the use of strings in this album. <3

    February 2012
  • rmaertin

    Catchy!

    January 2012
  • iheartziyi

    Walcott. [2]

    October 2011
  • zaroOoO

    Walcott.

    August 2011
  • wi-lll

    My top album :D

    August 2011
  • NewChrischris91

    The best vampires of Earth [2]. I love me some Vampire Weekend. Solid debut album. "Campus" is to die for. Love it!

    August 2011
  • Najlaa_23

    I like this album a lot more than I like Contra. << totally agree . for me "Contra" is their worst for sure !!

    July 2011
  • otaviozera

    June 2011
  • Forbie_chay

    The best vampires of Earth

    June 2011
  • leorino

    very niiiice!

    June 2011
  • dekamp

    one of my favorites albums :)

    February 2011
  • maryann2version

    Ughhh, can't wait until the summer rolls around. Goes so well together.

    February 2011
  • thisisbagley

    Finally: LAST.FM does stream some more VW tracks (Oxford..., Cape Cod..., A-Punk) here through the radio here!!!

    November 2010
  • isai_ferdinand

    Amazing album ♥

    November 2010
  • hollmill

    I like this album a lot more than I like Contra.

    October 2010
  • McNastyFilth

    Good album. Contra is good as well.

    September 2010
  • AnotherKoshka

    this album is definitely the better one

    September 2010
  • live4ever89

    damn its catchy, i can't stop listening to it!!! [2]

    September 2010
  • kaftoskaitsiou

    their best in my opinion.

    September 2010
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